Meaning of demotic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Language as spoken or written by the common people.
   countable, uncountable
2. The demotic Egyptian script, used from c. 650 BCE to 452 CE.
3. The demotic Egyptian language, spoken from c. 650 BCE to 400 BCE.

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Examples

“Near-synonym: vernacular”

“2010, John C. Wells, accents map Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like.”

“Regarding the ranges of these palaeographic areas, the terms mentioned might again be misleading to a nonadept, who, for example, has to know that the Delta is mostly uncharted territory in regard to Demotic palaeography (due to the lack of sources from this area).”

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